Question

I am writing an XML document in C#.

I have something like this…

string output = 'REAPP DUE  NO OF  M CASE NBR   APPL NBR      DATE  GRPS   M CASE NBR   APPL NBR      DATE  GRPS   _                                       _                                       _'; 

and I do this…

        objXmlTextWriter.WriteStartElement('Case');         objXmlTextWriter.WriteString(record);         objXmlTextWriter.WriteEndElement();   

and the xml element turns out like this…

<Case>REAPP DUE NO OF REAPP DUE NO OF M CASE NBR APPL NBR DATE GRPS M CASE NBR APPL NBR DATE GRPS _ _ _ </Case> 

It has basically converted white space with length greater than 1 to 1 character of white space.

How do I prevent this?

Answer 1

Sorry, got confused before (deleted the wrong answer). But I can’t reproduce what you seem to be seeing. Check this program… it does preserve spaces.

class Program {     static void Main(string[] args)     {          XmlWriter w = XmlTextWriter.Create('./foo.xml');         w.WriteStartElement('foo');         w.WriteString(' THIS   HAS VARYING     SPACeS ');         w.WriteEndElement();         w.Close();          StreamReader sr = new StreamReader('./foo.xml');         Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd());         Console.ReadKey();     } }